4 month appointment

N had his 4 month appointment today. He's doing well other than the fact that he's not keeping up on the weight gain. He's 25" (60th percentile) and only 12lbs, 15ozs (15th). He had been in the 60th for length and 30th for weight at almost every appointment before, so the doctor is a bit concerned. I'm going to take him back in two weeks for a recheck and if he's still not gaining I think we're going to try meds for reflux. He spits up a ton, but so did M and R, so I didn't really think much of it.

Other than that he's meeting all his milestones and got 2 shots and one oral vax.

Here's his 4 month picture from yesterday. I've been taking one each month in the same spot (did the same thing with the other two also). I just really wish I would have picked a different place to take the monthly photo, I'm never happy with how they turn out in that chair. lol Oh well...

Earthquake

Let me just say that I hate earthquakes, and I've somehow managed to be out of town for every big one we've had here until yesterday's 6.5 quake.
Matthew was at the shop, and I was here with all 3 kids by myself. Luckily I had N with me in M's room, and R was playing in his room right next to hers. There are a lot of times during the day where the kids are a lot further away from me (like right now). I was able to grab all 3 of them very quickly and get us all under the kitchen table before it was over. It was shaking pretty hard, I'm not really sure how we all ran down the hallway without falling, but we did.
Amazingly only a few little things fell and nothing was broken in our house. We didn't even loose power. From what I've heard we did a lot better up here than Eureka! Matthew's shop was a wreck, stuff everywhere and cracks in the floors, and there are lots of buildings taped off that might be unsafe now.
So, that made for quite an exciting weekend! Matthew's at work now helping field all the calls they're getting and the kids and I just watched a movie.

N is 4 months old today, I got some cute pictures of him smiling that I'll try to get posted tomorrow after his appointment. :)

Thankful List

I'm totally stealing this idea from my friend Paige (who stole it from another friend). I started a list on the side of my blog that I'm going to try to update everyday with one thing I'm thankful for. Hoping it will help me to be more positive each day. :)

And because I haven't posted this cute picture yet, here's one of Mr. N grinning from the other day. :)

A new year...

Well, with the new year it seems to be the time to post resolutions on the old blog, so here are a few of mine:

Finish unpacking and moving into our house.

Put things on the walls in the kids' rooms.

Keep flat surfaces (ie: bookshelf, end table, and my DESK) free of clutter (this is going to be the hardest for me I think).

Continue to exercise more regularly.

Enjoy my family more and remember that the kids will grow up fast.

Hopefully those won't be too hard, like I said, the clutter thing is going to be my hardest, but I think I'm getting better at it already.

We didn't do anything for New Years Eve. I almost made it to midnight, but only because somebody decided he didn't want to sleep in his crib and Mommy was a much better bed.



I can here him talking in the other room now, he just woke up from his nap. We have his 4 month appointment in a week, I'll do an update on him then. :)

Hope everyone is having a good start to the new year!

Some Christmas photos...

Here are a few random Christmas pictures. Blogger is still not giving me anything but code in my posts, so I have no clue what's what, and these are totally random, I'm sorry I can't put captions with them!! If you're on FB I put more an explanation with each photo over there. :)











We're doing well. N is growing and learning new things all the time. He's been "talking" up a storm lately, it's so cute!! He loves to just lay there and chat with us now. He's sleeping through the night about half the time. He'll do 11 hours one night, and then get up at 1:30 the next. I do love the full nights of sleep, but it's hard on me not knowing when he'll get up each night.

Well I need to go get some dinner made, I'll try to update again later with more Christmas pictures and more about our Christmas. Hope everyone had a great holiday season!!

Merry Christmas!

Now that all our cards have been mailed out, I thought I'd post it here so everyone can see it. :)




The first official day of Christmas vacation started out much like the Griswald's... I was laying in bed nursing N before 7 this morning and I heard a big loud crashing noise. R had pulled the shower curtain down in the bathroom. Lovely... I wonder if my house will still be standing when I send them back to school in two weeks?

Hope everyone's having a good holiday season so far!!

New pics for my wall

I've been redoing my photo wall a bit. After I put it up in January I decided that I wanted all the photos to be matted, and all black and whites, but I knew I was pregnant then, and I knew I'd want to add new pictures once the baby was born, so I just left it how it was. Well, I'm finally getting around to changing it over, and it's almost done. I've been switching them out slowly and I only have 3 spots left (which look really funny and stick out from the others now). I need a new one of M, and I want one of N with each of the kids. I took two of them today, still need one of N & R, hopefully later this week! I'll post a new picture of the whole thing once it's redone, but I wanted to share the two new pictures I took this afternoon. Of course, Mr. Serious won't smile for me, but he's still cute. :)